Sails.JS HTTP + HTTPS

Question

I am trying to figure out how to lift a sails app that responds to both HTTP and HTTPS requests. I used the config/local.js method of configuring express like so (detailed h

Answer 1

1-Uncomment the path to your SSL Certificates in your local.js or add path to your SSL Certificates in your config/env/production.js.

    module.exports  = {
 ssl: {
     ca: require('fs').readFileSync(__dirname + '/ssl/ca.crt'),
     key: require('fs').readFileSync(__dirname + '/ssl/key.key'),
     cert: require('fs').readFileSync(__dirname + '/ssl/cert.crt')
   },
 port: 443
}

2-Add a policies section in your config/env/production.js

    module.exports  = {
 ssl: {
     ca: require('fs').readFileSync(__dirname + '/ssl/ca.crt'),
     key: require('fs').readFileSync(__dirname + '/ssl/key.key'),
     cert: require('fs').readFileSync(__dirname + '/ssl/cert.crt')
   },
 port: 443,
 policies: {
    '*': 'isHTTPS'
   }
}

3-Create a isHTTPS.js policy in your api/policies folder. This policy will redirect the HTTP request to HTTPS

  module.exports = function(req, res, next) {
    if (req.secure) {
        // Already https; don't do anything special.
        next();
    } else {
        // Redirect to https.
        res.redirect('https://' + req.headers.host + req.url);
    }
};

4-Then we will edit the config/bootstrap.js file and listen to port 80 if the environment is production, so that we can redirect the requests to 443 i.e SSL

    var http = require( 'http' );
module.exports.bootstrap = function(cb) {
    //If the environment is production, then listen on port 80 
    if(sails.config.environment === "production") {
        http.createServer( sails.hooks.http.app ).listen( 80 );        
    }
    cb();
}